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... Lead , with Opium Lotion .. 2752 973 2747 Acetate of Potassa .. Acetate of Zinc , Eye - wash 912 Acid , Tartaric , Uses of .. 2772 Acid , Corns Cured by Acetic Acid , Carbonic Gas Acid , Carbonic , a Poison 2941 Acid , Carbonic , How to ...
... Lead , with Opium Lotion .. 2752 973 2747 Acetate of Potassa .. Acetate of Zinc , Eye - wash 912 Acid , Tartaric , Uses of .. 2772 Acid , Corns Cured by Acetic Acid , Carbonic Gas Acid , Carbonic , a Poison 2941 Acid , Carbonic , How to ...
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... Lead 1313 203 819 Damsons , Preserved .. 160 Dances , Terms Used to Describe Direct or Address ? Diseases , Causes of Diseases , Treatment of . Dishes , How to Arrange 3127 Dishes , to Place on the Table Dishes should be Gar- nished ...
... Lead 1313 203 819 Damsons , Preserved .. 160 Dances , Terms Used to Describe Direct or Address ? Diseases , Causes of Diseases , Treatment of . Dishes , How to Arrange 3127 Dishes , to Place on the Table Dishes should be Gar- nished ...
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... Lead for Damp Walls .. Lead , Poisoning by 819 Lemons , Uses of 2767 2275 Length of a Day and Leaf Lice , to Free Plants from Night , to ascertain ... 2934 1814 Less or Fewer ? 1405 3061 Knot , a poor 3113 Leaf Impressions , to Take ...
... Lead for Damp Walls .. Lead , Poisoning by 819 Lemons , Uses of 2767 2275 Length of a Day and Leaf Lice , to Free Plants from Night , to ascertain ... 2934 1814 Less or Fewer ? 1405 3061 Knot , a poor 3113 Leaf Impressions , to Take ...
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... Lead , Poisoning by 2275 Roasting , Dialogue on .. Roasting , liints and Cau- tions 1972 598 Samphire , to Pickle 2339 Sage , Properties and Uses of 8008 Redowa Waltz 1701 Roasting , Loss by . 239 Sarsaparilla , Properties Refrigerants ...
... Lead , Poisoning by 2275 Roasting , Dialogue on .. Roasting , liints and Cau- tions 1972 598 Samphire , to Pickle 2339 Sage , Properties and Uses of 8008 Redowa Waltz 1701 Roasting , Loss by . 239 Sarsaparilla , Properties Refrigerants ...
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... Lead , Poisoning by Tamarind Drinks 1002 2275 Tamarinds , Uses of 2729 3277 Sulphate of Potash 2743 Tape - worm , Remedy for 2780 Sulphate of Zinc Eye- Tape - worm , Tincture for 1015 wash Sulphur and Potash Pow- der ... 913 Tartar ...
... Lead , Poisoning by Tamarind Drinks 1002 2275 Tamarinds , Uses of 2729 3277 Sulphate of Potash 2743 Tape - worm , Remedy for 2780 Sulphate of Zinc Eye- Tape - worm , Tincture for 1015 wash Sulphur and Potash Pow- der ... 913 Tartar ...
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Page 403 - I see by little and little more of what is to be done, and how it is to be done, should I ever be able to do it.
Page 153 - A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of; they think 'Tis day, and will never be night...
Page 153 - Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Page 153 - He means, that perhaps the cheapness is apparent only, and not real; or the bargain, by straitening thee in thy business, may do thee more harm than good. For in another place he says, Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths.
Page 344 - I returned ; and, loosing from the stake the string with the little stick which was fastened to it, went again into the water, where I found, that, lying on my back and holding the stick in my hands, I was drawn along the surface of the water in a very agreeable manner. Having then engaged another boy to carry my clothes round the pond...
Page 152 - So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business, but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, "keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will," and " Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.
Page 145 - Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe, and quiet, and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.
Page 209 - Who to his plighted vows and trust has ever firmly stood ; And though he promise to his loss, he makes his promise good.
Page 63 - Take half bushel of nice unslacked lime, slack i with boiling water, cover it during the process to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it a peck of salt, previously well dissolved in warm water ; three pounds of ground rice, boiled to a thin paste, and stirred in boiling hot ; half a pound of powdered Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean glue, which has been...
Page 211 - Peel and cut into very small pieces three onions, three turnips, one carrot, and four potatoes, put them into a stewpan with a quarter of a pound of butter, the same of lean ham, and a bunch of parsley, pass them ten minutes over a sharp fire ; then add a...